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Show dodging wool and lead. And the people peo-ple will dodge'the Democratic party beautifully on election day. Honest people have no admiration for cowardice. STILL DODGING WOOL. The diminutive Herald is still dancing danc-ing around the wool question. It makes no attempt ta grapple tha subject at a vital point. It does net toll its readers why the Democrats did not dare to declare for free wooj in their Provo platform. It does not explain the present price - cf wool in Philadelphia and in London. It does not compare the cost of producing pro-ducing wool in Utah and'in Australia. It does not explain why, as Prof. Pacx says, "nearly one million sheepmen sheep-men hare regularly voted the Republican Repub-lican ticket for fifteen years." Indeed, it states no facts at all, but merely throws out theories and occasional oc-casional statistics from eastern sources. It has the nerve to gay that Utah wool men are for free wool, but it declines to furnish a list of such parties. Its latest piece of "evidence" is a New York circular which favors free wool on tho ground that American woolen manufactures would be increased in-creased by this policy and the market for home wools widened. The fallacies of this statement are easily exposed. First, the manufacture of American woolen goods kas steadily and enormously enor-mously increased under protection, and is increasing faster today under the McKisley law than ever before in our history. Second, free trade would not mean the growth of American factories, but the transfer of the American woolen industry to countries where labor is cheaper. It would therefore involve the exportation of American wool and a reduction of at least 50 per cent in its market value. Free wool, even with a continuance of protection on manufactured manu-factured goods, would produce the game effect. The free wool theory is absolutely indefensible in-defensible from the Utah standpoint. I The only way in which the Herald can make any defense of it at all is to dodge the vital points and parade the imprac- j tical theories of free trad college pro- j lessors. 'k Th3 Democratic parijr in Utah is i |
